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submitted 10 months ago by GhaziMods to c/ghazi

"History does not repeat itself but it often rhymes."

If you're not aware of what's going on Aftermath have an excellent write-up:
https://aftermath.site/sweet-baby-detected-conspiracy-theory-steam

Currently another right-wing harassment campaign is raging and it keeps escalating, drawing wider circles every day. At the heart is a small consultancy company, called Sweet Baby Inc. They are accused of "destroying games with diversity and inclusivity". It is - of course - conspiratorial nonsense, the company isn't even doing what the chuds accuse them of. The fake outrage is yet again a pretext to spout hate and revel in sexism, racism, homo- and transphobia.

If all of this feels familiar to those who have been around the last time, that's because it is: 2024's Gators have fully the moniker of "GamerGate 2.0"

In the tenth year since GamerGate, we're seeing a repeat of it in the harassment campaign against narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc. The same forces that set off the initial one have changed their language and targets, but the reactionary current is back, only strengthened in the intervening years, and still enabled by a corporate class that cares more about profit margins than worker well being.

This campaign - like in 2014 - is a part of the larger right-wing attack against anything that their fascist ideology disapproves of. Like the last time, they choose a small group to punish and harass in order to send a wider message. This needs to be stopped. But what we get instead is yet another failure of management class: Valve and Discord who own the platforms where (currently) the majority of the harassment is organized, have yet to take any measure. All we can do at the moment is to support each other and oppose the fascists.

So to SBI and its workers, solidarity, always.

~ The Ghazi mod team

PPS: Free Palestine

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Koei Tecmo knows about those pictures of Dead or Alive's fighters, and isn't happy about them.

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A Utah-based startup has graced us with an AI-powered Anne Frank chatbot, and it's very eager to forgive and forget.

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The settlement was announced Friday

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A service for creating AI-generated nude images of real people is running circles around Meta’s moderation efforts.

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Butler’s “Darwin among the machines” warned of a future mechanical race that could subjugate humanity.

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Hi. Today we're looking at AI-generated images, why they look like that, why fascists love them, and how corporations want to use them to cheapen the valuable work of creatives.

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If anyone hits a paywall: Archived version of the article

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Young male gamers in South Korea thought it resembled a gesture used to poke fun at the size of men’s penises.

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Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.

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It’s going to be like this forever, isn’t it

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submitted 1 week ago by squirrel to c/ghazi

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/22426988

Meta announced a series of major updates to its content moderation policies today, including ending its fact-checking partnerships and “getting rid” of restrictions on speech about “topics like immigration, gender identity and gender” that the company describes as frequent subjects of political discourse and debate. “It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms,” Meta’s newly appointed chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, wrote in a blog post outlining the changes.

In an accompanying video, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the company’s current rules in these areas as “just out of touch with mainstream discourse.”

In tandem with this announcement, the company made a number of updates across its Community Guidelines, an extensive set of rules that outline what kinds of content are prohibited on Meta’s platforms, including Instagram, Threads, and Facebook. Some of the most striking changes were made to Meta’s “Hateful Conduct” policy, which covers discussions on immigration and gender.

In a notable shift, the company now says it allows “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like ‘weird.’”

In other words, Meta now appears to permit users to accuse transgender or gay people of being mentally ill because of their gender expression and sexual orientation. The company did not respond to requests for clarification on the policy.

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submitted 1 week ago by SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org to c/ghazi

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17930532

This one is very shocking, there's lots of things it covers: Abuse in general, religious abuse, psychological abuse, self harm, fat{phobia/misia}, misogyny, power dynamics etc. We still recommend watching it if you can deal with those things and the content warnings in the video because it shows the truth of the companies behind your favourite games and the systems which demand inexpense which leads to abuse and other awful things.

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One year-end summary from Fable, a social app where people share what books they read, told the user, “Don’t forget to surface for the occasional white author, OK?”

Archived version if anyone hits a paywall

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20507216

Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content"

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A German public broadcaster had initially defended its decision to have Thilo Mischke present its flagship cultural program. Over 100 writers, artists and journalists had petitioned against the choice.

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We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas

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The Arrowhead Game Studios exec was asked about 'DEI' in the sci-fi shooter

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"Modern Video Games Suck" (www.youtube.com)
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Video games are only as enriching as the rest of your life. ease off the slop, stop playing games you hate, stop playing live service all the time, stop only paying attention to tentpole releases, play some games you love, try something new, go outside, challenge yourself, and enjoy the world and a tasty treat. Pacific Rim takes place in 2025 so we are going to get mechs and kaijus.

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As of today, three more states join the list of 17 that can't access Pornhub because of age verification laws.

If you hit a paywall, here is an archived link.

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The Oxford Literary Festival has been criticised for including heterosexual gender critical campaigner Helen Joyce in its LGBTQ+ listings.

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Character.AI is hosting chatbots that simulate school shootings, extol real school shooters, and impersonate real school shooting victims.

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Who is Tatsumi Maasaki?

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